Catalogue entry

FWN 2039

Baigneur

c.1890

Rewald (W131); Venturi revised: 1885–88

Watercolor on laid paper

12 1/4 x 10 in. (31.1 x 25.4 cm)

8 1/16 x 6 1/8 in. (20.5 x 15.5 cm) (image)

Vollard archives: photo without no.

Christie's, New York

Keywords

Figure compositions
Bathers and Nudes:
- male bather / baigneur »

Provenance

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Simon Meller, Budapest, Paris and Munich

Paul Cassirer, Berlin

Arthur Sachs, Paris (1925);

Estate of Arthur Sachs, Parke-Bernet, New York, Nov. 28, 1973, no.3, ill; bought in

Stanford Rothschild, Baltimore;

Christie's, New York, Nov. 14, 2017, no. 117, ill.

Exhibition History

1950 San Francisco

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, The Arthur Sachs Collection, 1950.

Published References

Rewald 1983a

Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 131, ill.

Ballas 2002

Ballas, Guila. Cézanne: baigneuses et baigneurs: thème et composition. Paris: Adam Biro, 2002, p. 295, no. 154, ill. c. 1890.

Related work

Record last updated June 5, 2019. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Baigneur, c.1890 (FWN 2039)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1108 (accessed on November 4, 2025).